[AMP-L] Minneapolis VA Seeks Answers Over Vexing Phantom Amputee Pain

[Wayne Renardson]

via Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Mobile app under development to help veterans do home activities that 
reduce amputation-related pain.   

Years after people lose arms or legs to wartime injuries or in car 
accidents, they can still feel them hurt or tingle. Doctors don't 
fully understand this "phantom limb pain," but researchers at the 
Minneapolis Veterans Medical Center are determined to improve 
treatment.  

Occupational therapist Tonya Rich said as many as 80% of patients 
experience the pain after amputations necessitated by traumatic 
injuries or vascular diseases.  

"It's a very real pain that can very much ... impact their day-to-day 
life," she said.  

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Wayne R.